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Help[Opinions] To me, Tristan is male. Although I find it sounds more masculine in German than in English. (m)
in reply to a message by Christa S.
I've never heard that it's used for girls and I myself can't really say that I generelly HATE boys' names used for girls or otherwise, sometimes I love it, sometimes I loathe it.
Tristan doesn't LOOK female to me although you are partly right.
It does sound a bit female.
But nevertheless, not female enough, in my opinion.
I still like it as a boys' name and would never even think about naming a girl Tristan.
It doesn't feel right.
I like the feminine form Trista, though.
It's a bit, bit, bit tacky, but I like it.
Like Usha, somehow.
So, for me, there's no general rule for when to use a male name for a girl and when to use a female name for a boy. Sometimes it fits, sometimes it doesn't.
And you should always think about the child.
Will it be teased a lot with the name?
Although I can't state this in general, I think I'm more into 'traditional' unisex names that have been used for both sexes for a pretty long time.
Naming a boy Elizabeth or such things are simply... ugly.
Tristan doesn't LOOK female to me although you are partly right.
It does sound a bit female.
But nevertheless, not female enough, in my opinion.
I still like it as a boys' name and would never even think about naming a girl Tristan.
It doesn't feel right.
I like the feminine form Trista, though.
It's a bit, bit, bit tacky, but I like it.
Like Usha, somehow.
So, for me, there's no general rule for when to use a male name for a girl and when to use a female name for a boy. Sometimes it fits, sometimes it doesn't.
And you should always think about the child.
Will it be teased a lot with the name?
Although I can't state this in general, I think I'm more into 'traditional' unisex names that have been used for both sexes for a pretty long time.
Naming a boy Elizabeth or such things are simply... ugly.
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Very well stated. Thanks so much.
As I stated in a previous post, you will have to forgive my ignorance in the gender of this name, as I have only heard it on girls before. And, it seems that many of you already knew the origin and several references as to why it is a boy's name. I have never heard of these references (ie Tristan and Isolde)... but then again there are several things that I find out are commonly known and I have never had the opportunity to know about them... for instance, an ex-boyfriend was shocked that I had never seen or heard of "The Man from Snowy River" and that my parents were horrible because they had never shown it to me... stuff like that.
So I profusely apologize for my ignorance.,, but I had nothing else to tell me otherwise until now. So thanks to everyone for setting me straight.
As I stated in a previous post, you will have to forgive my ignorance in the gender of this name, as I have only heard it on girls before. And, it seems that many of you already knew the origin and several references as to why it is a boy's name. I have never heard of these references (ie Tristan and Isolde)... but then again there are several things that I find out are commonly known and I have never had the opportunity to know about them... for instance, an ex-boyfriend was shocked that I had never seen or heard of "The Man from Snowy River" and that my parents were horrible because they had never shown it to me... stuff like that.
So I profusely apologize for my ignorance.,, but I had nothing else to tell me otherwise until now. So thanks to everyone for setting me straight.
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You're welcome ;).
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